Lsu Press: 854 books
by Ron Houchin
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Through silence and song, death and rebirth, a sense of wonder pervades every minute of our lives. In The Man Who Saws Us in Half, Ron Houchin explores this idea from the first curiosities of childhood to the gradual skepticism that comes with age and the weight of practical concerns. In the whimsical...
Living on the Surface
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Federico Garc�a Lorca did not know Miller Williams, of course, but he was describing him when he told us that a poet is "professor of the five senses." The poems in this collection cover thirty years of loving contact with the endlessly varied surfaces of the world. They are poems in which...
Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
The horrific 1955 slaying of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till marks a significant turning point in the history of American race relations. An African American boy from Chicago, Till was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta when he was accused of "wolf-whistling" at a young white woman....
by Michael Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Though the phrase "Calvinist humor" may seem to be an oxymoron, Michael Dunne, in highly original and unfailingly interesting readings of major American fiction writers, uncovers and traces two recurrent strands of Calvinist humor descending from Puritan times far into the twentieth century....
Peter Taylor
A Writer's Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2001
“Splendid. . . . McAlexander’s biography only makes it clearer than ever that Peter Taylor was our last great southern man of letters.”—Chicago Tribune
“For those of us to whom Taylor’s writing is among the chief glories of 20th-century American literature, Peter Taylor: A Writer’s...
Desire and the Divine
Feminine Identity in White Southern Women's Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this groundbreaking study, Kathaleen E. Amende explores the works and lives of late-twentieth-century southern women writers to show how conservative Christian ideals of femininity shaped notions of religion, sexuality, and power in the South. Drawing from the work of authors such as Rosemary Daniell...
William Stephens
Georgia's Forgotten Founder
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In 1737, Englishman William Stephens (1671--1753) sailed to Georgia to serve as colonial secretary to its British Board of Trustees. His lucid reports on the condition of Georgia deeply impressed the board, which eventually appointed him president of the troubled colony. The elderly Stephens adroitly...
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky
A Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try again to escape. His first attempt had ended in his near starvation as he hid for nine weeks in a swamp, before hunger compelled him to return to his master. This time the...
by Solomon Northup
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
The classic 1968 edition with historical notes WITH A NEW foreword by Karolyn Smardz Frost.
Solomon Northup was a free man, the son of an emancipated Negro Slave. Until the spring of 1841 he lived a simple, uneventful life with his wife and three children in Upstate New York. Then, suddenly, he fell...
by Bryan Giemza, Rebecca Sharpless, Ted Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Much of American popular culture depicts the 1930s South either as home to a population that was intellectually, morally, and physically stunted, or as a romantic, sentimentalized haven untouched by the nation’s financial troubles. Though these images stand as polar opposites, each casts the South...
Race, Theft, and Ethics
Property Matters in African American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In Race, Theft, and Ethics, Lovalerie King examines African American literature's critique of American law concerning matters of property, paying particular attention to the stereotypical image of the black thief. She draws on two centuries of African American writing that reflects the manner in which...
Facing the Other
Ethical Disruption and the American Mind
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
"Bolton is admirably focused, centering broader ventures around precise turning points in the documents and incidents she has selected.... The book crosses generic boundaries... in the spirit of an other who transcends any single history or discipline." -- Religion and Literature
Linda Bolton...
A Kingdom Divided
Evangelicals, Loyalty, and Sectionalism in the Civil War Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
A Kingdom Divided uncovers how evangelical Christians in the border states influenced debates about slavery, morality, and politics from the 1830s to the 1890s. Using little-studied events and surprising incidents from the region, April E. Holm argues that evangelicals on the border powerfully shaped...
Senator Albert Gore, Sr.
Tennessee Maverick
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2004
Best remembered as the father of Vice President Al Gore, Albert Gore, Sr., worked tirelessly in politics himself, a Democratic congressman and senator from 1939 to 1971 and a representative of southern liberalism and American reformism. In the first comprehensive biography of Gore, Kyle Longley has...